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DEVICE FOR TRIMMING AND POLISHING THE NAILS. No. 282,793. Patented Aug. 7, 1883.

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ATTORNEY NITED STATES GERALD N. STANTON,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y;

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 282,793, dated August 7, 1883.

Application filed October 9,1882. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GERALD N. STANTON, of the city, county, and State Of'New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Trimming and Polishing the Nails; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying sheet of drawings, making part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in devices for trimming and polishing the nails; and the invention consists in a nail-polishing device or pad, made in two parts hinged together, forming a box to contain scissors, powder, and other requisites for cleaning and polishing the nails, as is more particularly hereinafter described.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my nail-cleaner with its two parts open. showing'the interior. Fig. 2 is a section of the same with the parts closed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section of a modification of my polisher, showing the two parts thereof held together by means of a nut and screw.

7 Similarlctters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

Hitherto the implements for trimming and polishing the nails have consisted of a polisher or pad and a separate box to hold the scissors, brush, powder, and other requisites, so that it became necessary to have both the polisher and the box of accessories always together, for the one in the absence of the other was practically useless. To provide a receptacle for the scissors, powder, brush, &c., that shall be always present with the polisher, I construct my polisher A in the ordinary form and of any suitable material, with its back divided in the direction of its length into two parts, B and C. These parts are hinged together at b.

' parts when they are closed together.

Into these parts B and O are formed cavities e, of the size and shape to receive withinthem the scissors f, powder-box g, (indicated in dotted lines, Fig. 1,) and the brush h, so that when these several articles are placed within their respective cavities they will lie countersunk within the cavities, and not project above the inner surfaces of each of the parts B and O and offer obstruction to the close fitting of these A catch, k, is fixed to the sides of the parts B and O opposite the hinge b, so as to hold the two parts B and O tightly together when they are closed. v

To thepart O is secured the ordinary polish ing-pad, m, and to the part Bis secured an operating-handle, which completes the device.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the polisher contains within it, as in a box, all the requisites for trimming and polishing the nails without increasing the size of the polisher, thereby not only saving the cost of an additional box to contain such requisites at all times with the polisher, the polisher, in fact, being both the box of requisites and a polishing-pad combined.

Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is r 1. A device for polishing the nails, &c., consist'ing of an operating-handle and a polishingpad, divided into two parts and arranged to contain within them a scissors and other requisites for such purpose, substantially as shown and described.

2. The combination of the divided pad B O, hinged at b, and provided with cavities e and pad m, with the catch it and handle A, substantially as shown and described.

' GERALD N. STANTON.

\Vitnesses: G. M. PLYMPTON,

J No. N. BRUNS. 

